Tottenham have announced that Les Ferdinand and Chris Ramsey have left their coaching positions at White Hart Lane. In what was a widely anticipated move, Ferdinand and Ramsey depart as the new head coach, Mauricio Pochettino, looks to bring in his own backroom staff.

Ferdinand was brought to the club by Harry Redknapp and, alongside Ramsey, was selected by Tim Sherwood to help him in his first-team duties before the former Spurs player was sacked at the end of the season.

A statement on Tottenham’s website read: “Les returned to the club in a coaching capacity in 2008, initially working with the strikers before linking up with Tim Sherwood and Chris Ramsey coordinating the development squad and most recently working with the first team. As a player, Les scored 39 goals in 146 appearances in our colours between 1997 and 2003.

“Chris joined the club in 2004, working within our academy set-up, before running our under-21 side and development squad in conjunction with Tim and Les, stepping up to a first-team coaching role in December. We should like to thank them for their contribution and wish them well for the future.”

Pochettino was appointed on 28 May after an impressive stint at Southampton and has already taken the assistant manager Jesús Pérez, the first-team coach Miguel D’Agostino and goalkeeping coach Toni Jiménez to Tottenham with him.